The Navy is notoriously silent and neither are the members of other sea services given to talking overmuch of happenings outside their everyday routine. Thus it is that the particulars of a gallant deed of some days ago have only just come to notice. The Customs revenue cruiser Liuhsing was lying at her moorings down the river, with a strong tide running, when a sailor who was working in the rigging lost his hold and fell overboard. The shout for aid was immediately answered from different parts of the ship by two officers, Second Engineers A. 8. Russell and V. B. Glover, who, each unknown to the other, immediately dived overboard, fully dressed and swam to the man's aid. Between the two, the sailor Was soon got back to safety, not much the worse for his experience and profoundly grateful to the officers for their promptitude and gallantry.
Particulars of the incident have been sent to Peking, with a strong recommendation that recognition be given to Messrs. Russell and Glover.
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